Terence Tao joins 25 Fields Medallists in declaration that AI firms' benchmark push misaligns with mathematics
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-12
Terence Tao announces he is among 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — of an urgently released declaration arguing that LLMs' rapid math progress has come with a harmful benchmark race. The statement, covered by The Economist, says AI companies' goal of solving math problems as benchmarks is severely misaligned with the goals of the mathematical community, and frames it as part of a broader alignment problem affecting science, creative professions, and society at large.
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